The Transnational Codification of International Arbitration: Uniformisation under the Shadow of War and Commerce

The Transnational Codification of International Arbitration studies the process of transnational codification of international arbitration. Through a broad array of instruments and their legislative history, this research connects agents and ideas involved in a long-term project of procedural formalization. Bruno Sousa Rodrigues argues that since the late 19th century there has been a progressive convergence of procedural technique of public and private forms of international arbitration, motivated by an ambition to govern war, peace and commerce. Readers get an in-depth look at how this convergence has affected the authority of international arbitration in a globalized administration of justice.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Defined Terms 1 Introduction 2 Methodological Remarks  1 Cosmopolitanism, Transnational Law and Transnational Arbitration   1.1 Arbitration as Part of the Transnational Administration of Justice   1.2 A Diachronic Perspective on Transnational Arbitration  2 Authority, Symbolic Struggle and Codification   2.1 The Adversarial Turn: Authority beyond Legitimate Power   2.2 The Authority of Arbitration and the Struggle for the Codification of Arbitral Procedure 3 Great Transformations  1 Sowing the Seeds of Uniformity in International Arbitration   1.1 An Early Procedural Code for International Arbitration   1.2 The Institut de droit International and the Uniformization of Private International Law  2 In the Shadows of War   2.1 An Alternative to War: the Creation of the Permanent Court of Arbitration   2.2 From Public to Private International Arbitration: the Use of Arbitration for the Collection of International Debt  3 Uniform Commercial Law and Private International Arbitration   3.1 The Procedural Turn in Business Diplomacy   3.2 The Quest for Uniformity in Private International Arbitration 4 The Promises of the Interwar Years  1 Private International Arbitration before the League of Nations   1.1 The Expansion of Arbitral Authority through Standard Clauses   1.2 At the Crossroads of Geneva and the Hague: an Emerging Transnational Division of Labour between Courts and Arbitral Tribunals  2 Mobilizing Arbitration for the Administration of War and Peace   2.1 The Economic Settlement of World War I   2.2 The Stillborn Procedure of Compulsory Arbitration  3 Not All Roads Lead to Rome   3.1 The Failure of the UNIDROIT Project of Uniform Arbitration Law   3.2 The Expansion of Non-State Codification of Arbitral Authority 5 The Illusion of Fragmentation  1 New Forum Old Practices   1.1 A Renewed Quest for a Codified Procedure   1.2 A Star is Born: the Creation of ICSID  2 Hybrid Codification at the United Nations   2.1 Piercing the Iron Curtain at New York   2.2 UNCITRAL as a Privileged Locus for the Codification of Arbitral Authority 6 Conclusion Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Bruno Sousa Rodrigues, Ph.D. (2023), SciencesPo Paris, is a lecturer at that university. His research gravitates towards international arbitration, public and private international law, transnational legal theory, and legal sociology. He is an attorney at law and regularly acts in international arbitrations.